Nicolas Sierro

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Sierro is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Sierro has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Plant Science and 5 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Sierro's work include Plant tissue culture and regeneration (11 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (9 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Nicolas Sierro is often cited by papers focused on Plant tissue culture and regeneration (11 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (9 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Nicolas Sierro collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Japan. Nicolas Sierro's co-authors include Nikolai V. Ivanov, Manuel C. Peitsch, James N. D. Battey, Nicolas Bakaher, Kenta Nakai, Michiel de Hoon, Yuko Makita, Sonia Ouadi, Lucien Bovet and Simon Goepfert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Sierro

44 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The tobacco genome sequence and its comparison with those of tomato and potato

2014 440 citations Nicolas Sierro, James N. D. Battey et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolas Sierro Switzerland	16	1.2k	688	292	242	123	46	1.7k
Marie A. Elliot Canada	30	1.5k 1.2×	505 0.7×	367 1.3×	298 1.2×	220 1.8×	55	2.1k
Pascale B. Beauregard Canada	14	1.0k 0.9×	707 1.0×	330 1.1×	391 1.6×	78 0.6×	34	1.8k
José J. Rodríguez‐Herva Spain	23	964 0.8×	600 0.9×	461 1.6×	241 1.0×	59 0.5×	36	1.6k
Mark W. Silby United States	20	1.0k 0.8×	465 0.7×	350 1.2×	409 1.7×	85 0.7×	40	1.7k
Dave K. Berger South Africa	28	845 0.7×	1.3k 1.9×	424 1.5×	115 0.5×	59 0.5×	90	2.0k
Aurélien Carlier France	25	921 0.8×	806 1.2×	230 0.8×	222 0.9×	73 0.6×	51	1.6k
Dennis C. Gross United States	37	790 0.7×	2.9k 4.3×	149 0.5×	161 0.7×	157 1.3×	81	3.7k
Zaohai Zeng China	9	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	134 0.5×	74 0.3×	49 0.4×	16	1.8k
Kenji Nakahigashi Japan	24	1.8k 1.6×	640 0.9×	407 1.4×	174 0.7×	44 0.4×	47	2.2k
Soon-Kyeong Kwon South Korea	14	580 0.5×	1.0k 1.5×	75 0.3×	217 0.9×	71 0.6×	46	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Nicolas Sierro

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Sierro

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nicolas Sierro. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nicolas Sierro based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nicolas Sierro. Nicolas Sierro is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Landis, Jacob B., et al.. (2025). Differential Gene Expression and Unbalanced Homeolog Expression Bias in 4 Million-Year-Old Allopolyploids of Nicotiana Section Repandae. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(3).

Talikka, Marja, Alain Sewer, Nicolas Sierro, et al.. (2023). Tobacco Alkaloid Assessment in a DSS-Induced Colitis Mouse Model with a Fully Humanized Immune System. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(7). 6419–6419. 4 indexed citations

Ouadi, Sonia, Nicolas Sierro, Félix Kessler, & Nikolai V. Ivanov. (2023). Chromosome-scale assemblies of S. malaccense, S. aqueum, S. jambos, and S. syzygioides provide insights into the evolution of Syzygium genomes. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1248780–1248780. 4 indexed citations

Sierro, Nicolas, et al.. (2023). Nicotiana noctiflora Hook. Genome Contains Two Cellular T-DNAs with Functional Genes. Plants. 12(22). 3787–3787. 1 indexed citations

Ouadi, Sonia, Nicolas Sierro, Simon Goepfert, et al.. (2022). The clove (Syzygium aromaticum) genome provides insights into the eugenol biosynthesis pathway. Communications Biology. 5(1). 684–684. 21 indexed citations

Poussin, Carine, Lusine Khachatryan, Nicolas Sierro, et al.. (2022). Crowdsourced benchmarking of taxonomic metagenome profilers: lessons learned from the sbv IMPROVER Microbiomics challenge. BMC Genomics. 23(1). 624–624. 6 indexed citations

Xiang, Yang, Karsta Luettich, Florian Martin, et al.. (2021). Discriminating Spontaneous From Cigarette Smoke and THS 2.2 Aerosol Exposure-Related Proliferative Lung Lesions in A/J Mice by Using Gene Expression and Mutation Spectrum Data. Frontiers in Toxicology. 3. 634035–634035. 1 indexed citations

Isaev, Artem, Nicolas Sierro, Ido Yosef, et al.. (2020). Phage T7 DNA mimic protein Ocr is a potent inhibitor of BREX defence. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(10). 5397–5406. 65 indexed citations

Bovet, Lucien, Hélène Laparra, Gerhard Lang, et al.. (2020). Alkaloid chemophenetics and transcriptomics of the Nicotiana genus. Phytochemistry. 177. 112424–112424. 19 indexed citations

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Potuschak, Thomas, Javier F. Palatnik, Carla Schommer, et al.. (2019). Inhibition of Arabidopsis thaliana CIN‐like TCP transcription factors by Agrobacterium T‐DNA‐encoded 6B proteins. The Plant Journal. 101(6). 1303–1317. 7 indexed citations

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Morozova, Natalia, Nicolas Sierro, Artem Isaev, et al.. (2018). BREX system of Escherichia coli distinguishes self from non-self by methylation of a specific DNA site. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(1). 253–265. 82 indexed citations

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Poussin, Carine, Nicolas Sierro, Stéphanie Boué, et al.. (2018). Interrogating the microbiome: experimental and computational considerations in support of study reproducibility. Drug Discovery Today. 23(9). 1644–1657. 48 indexed citations

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Choukrallah, Mohamed-Amin, Nicolas Sierro, Florian Martin, et al.. (2018). Tobacco Heating System 2.2 has a limited impact on DNA methylation of candidate enhancers in mouse lung compared with cigarette smoke. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 123. 501–510. 9 indexed citations

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Sierro, Nicolas, James N. D. Battey, Lucien Bovet, et al.. (2018). The impact of genome evolution on the allotetraploid Nicotiana rustica – an intriguing story of enhanced alkaloid production. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 855–855. 22 indexed citations

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Kajikawa, Masataka, Nicolas Sierro, Haruhiko Kawaguchi, et al.. (2017). Genomic Insights into the Evolution of the Nicotine Biosynthesis Pathway in Tobacco. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 174(2). 999–1011. 71 indexed citations

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Sierro, Nicolas, James N. D. Battey, Sonia Ouadi, et al.. (2014). The tobacco genome sequence and its comparison with those of tomato and potato. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3833–3833. 440 indexed citations breakdown →

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Talikka, Marja, Nicolas Sierro, Nikolai V. Ivanov, et al.. (2012). Genomic impact of cigarette smoke, with application to three smoking-related diseases. Critical Reviews in Toxicology. 42(10). 877–889. 54 indexed citations

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Sierro, Nicolas, Yuko Makita, Michiel de Hoon, & Kenta Nakai. (2007). DBTBS: a database of transcriptional regulation in Bacillus subtilis containing upstream intergenic conservation information. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(suppl_1). D93–D96. 308 indexed citations

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Sierro, Nicolas. (2005). DBTGR: a database of tunicate promoters and their regulatory elements. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(90001). D552–D555. 21 indexed citations

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Ren, Qun, Jan B. van Beilen, Nicolas Sierro, et al.. (2005). Expression of PHA polymerase genes of Pseudomonas putida in Escherichia coli and its effect on PHA formation. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 87(2). 91–100. 15 indexed citations

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